Thursday, 17 November 2011

Stuff to watch

Fresh Meat 2
Beaver Falls 2
Top Boy
Inbetweeners 1
Educ Essex 2

Wednesday, 9 November 2011

Editing

Walter Murch lecture @ Bafta
Metaphors: Music, Architecture, Cooking

Friday, 4 November 2011

Words

KOAN :  a paradox to be meditated upon that is used to train Zen Buddhist monks to abandon ultimate dependence on reason and to force them into gaining sudden intuitive enlightenment


Hispaniola - island containing Haiti and Dominican Republic - site of the first European settlement in the Americas founded by Christopher Columbus on his voyages in 1492 and 1493 - second largest island in the Caribbean after Cuba

Azemmour or Azamor - Moroccan city 75 km southwest of Casablanca

Cacique is a leader of an indigenous group

On land a league was most commonly defined as 3 miles, though the length of a mile could vary from place to place and depending on the era. At sea a league was 3 nautical miles (6,076 yards5.556 kilometres).

nu·ga·to·ry (adjective)
1.
of no real value; trifling; worthless.
2.
of no force or effect; ineffective; futile; vain.
3.
not valid.
"all the while I knew my compass-course 'south-east' was growing nugatory" [The Riddle of the Sands]

prax·is 

Noun
  1. Practice, as distinguished from theory: "praxis of Marxism".
  2. Accepted practice or custom

Psychosis (from the Greek "psyche" for mind/soul, and "-osis", for abnormal condition or derangement) refers to an abnormal condition of the mind, and is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a "loss of contact with reality". 

Kibitz
to look on and offer unwelcome advice, especially at a card game.
[Moonraker]


importunity

persistence in requesting or demanding
[Moonraker]

Gratuitous
Prurient
Salacious
10/15

rebarbative
  1. unattractive and objectionable.
    eg "rebarbative modern buildings", that r male lover
from Old French se rebarber ‘face each other ‘beard to beard’ aggressively’

moxie

NORTH AMERICAN 
force of character, determination, or nerve.
"when you've got the moxie, you need the clothes to match"
Origin 1930s: from Moxie, the proprietary name of a soft drink.





Monday, 22 August 2011

Strategy word set

Strategy
Policy
Tactics

Saturday, 11 June 2011

Films to see

Ted
Ruby Sparks
Holy Motors
On the Road
Hope springs
My Mother's Curse
Woody Allen - Rome
Hitch season BFI
Take Me Home Tonight

[Paul; Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows]

Thursday, 26 May 2011

Stuff

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https://xxcrossplatform.basecamphq.com/clients

Saturday, 21 May 2011

Africa Trip

Tarzan of the Apes
Richard Burton
Red Indian paintings

Friday, 25 February 2011

Features and Factual Entertainment

F
Lifestyle
eg food, property, fashion, health, money, domestic life
On-Screen Talent (personable, authoritative, identity)
A take-out to use (eg advice)
midweek 8

FE
More entertainment dimension
midweek 9+10

Education by stealth

Wednesday, 16 February 2011

Writers

Jill Dawson
http://www.jilldawson.co.uk/
http://www.jilldawson.co.uk/lover.html

Helen Warner
http://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/helen-warner/
http://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/helen-warner/rsvp/

Peter Grimsdale
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Peter-Grimsdale/e/B0034PYFM2/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

Stephanie Calman
http://www.panmacmillan.com/authors%20illustrators/displayPage.asp?pageTitle=All%20Titles&ContributorID=71639&ContributorName=Stephanie%20Calman